Ed Skoudis is a founder and senior security consultant for the Washington, D.C.-based network security consultaning firm, Intelguardians Network Intelligence, LLC and a handler at the SANS' Internet Storm Center. His expertise includes hacker attacks and defenses, the information security industry, and computer privacy issues. He has performed numerous security assessments, designed information security governance and operations teams for Fortune 500 companies, and responded to computer attacks for clients in financial, high technology, health care, and other industries.